This course is now the Fundamentals of Global Warming Science. The goal of
this new course is to give an overview of what changes have been observed in
the climate system, how we can attribute these changes to human activities,
and what we can say about what will happen in the future. We will cover
topics such as how the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warm
the planet, observations of the climate system in the distant and recent
past, what forces the climate system and how climate responds to these
forces, responses of the hydrologic cycle in a changing climate, ocean
circulation and atmospheric circulation changes, and climate models. The
prerequisite for the course is one quarter of Calculus, and is appropriate
for any student who wants to learn climate science fundamentals in an
accelerated manner.

The course will be offered in Fall 2012 on TTh from 1-2:20 PM. Textbook
will be David Archer's Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast.
Questions about the course can be directed to Prof. Dargan Frierson,
dargan@atmos.washington.edu. This course is targeted towards graduate
students in natural resource and biological sciences, as well as those
social and health sciences, including students in the Evans School.

An advanced version of the former Climate Dynamics course (targeted for
students who have taken mathematics courses through differential equations)
will be offered in Fall 2013.